WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Huffington Post US Elections

To the outside world, the US Elections seem, for most of the time, like an unfathomable melodrama that puts many long-running soaps to shame.

The entire process appears complicated, what with the collegiate system rendering only a handful of states any real influence over proceedings.

There are the multi-multimillion-dollar campaigns. There are the mud-slinging and dirty tricks that seem to be employed by the fringes of the political movements on both sides.

And there are the ideological positions of the opposing campaigns which, to most people beyond the borders of the United States, seem to be almost incomprehensible in the way they divide opinion, sometimes even within families.

Yep, from across the pond, it’s all a bit much, but it’s all the more fascinating because of it.